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‘Demonic and inhuman’ migrant hotel murderer jailed for life

Rhiannon Skye Whyte’s family say Deng Chol Majek ‘celebrated’ after the killing and ‘might as well have danced on her grave’ Daily Telegraph 30/01/26 An asylum seeker who murdered a migrant hotel worker with a screwdriver is “demonic and inhuman”, a court has heard. Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, was killed by Deng Chol Majek on Oct 20 2024 in a “vicious and frenzied” attack at a deserted train platform in Walsall, West Midlands. Ms Whyte had been working at the Park Inn hotel, where Majek was being housed, when he followed her to the station after she finished her shift and stabbed her 23 times with a screwdriver. On Friday, at Coventry Crown Court, Majek was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 29 years. Mr Justice Soole previously adjourned sentencing Majek in October amid doubts about the Sudanese migrant’s claim that he was 19 years old. The killer, who is believed to have entered Britain by small boat less than three months before the murder, is known to have give...